The Sixers Announce Multiple Moves...

We've got multiple Sixers updates. We've got to talk about medical situations. We've got to talk about moves. And then I want to debate with everything that is going on and what's yet to go on. We've got to get off to a slow start. And if so, what's your patience, your tolerance for how this thing all actually gets underway with the season just about a week away? What's going on, everybody? Christian Pedersen back with another episode of Sixers Digest, the show that is excited for the eventual return of my boy, Adem Bona. And if you are excited like that, too, or if you think that he shouldn't be in the NBA or anything else Sixers wise, if you want to go ahead and like, subscribe, comment, share, follow all those other YouTube buttons, Sean and I got daily content for you all season long, no matter how this thing goes. Speaking of Adem Bona, he and Anthony Simons have both been ruled out for the final preseason game I had discussed earlier this week, and that's why I'm always saying subscribe, because we've got tons of content for you, but I discussed earlier that this, to me, the Adem Bona issue of him not playing in the preseason doesn't really throw anything off too big. i want him to focus on defense yeah he's going to shoot some occasional shots but he is much more of a rebounding functionary and the Anthony Simons one though this is a little bit of a bummer and to have his hamstring be this kind of uh we're going to be cautious about it it's a little bit more serious it just it feels like this is something that may have some lingering effects in the regular season and leaves me six out of ten on the worry scale but nonetheless a little bit worried at the very least if not about his hamstring just about how it's going to slow down the uh the rhythm and routine of this team kind of finding their zen finding their vibes whatever it is that you want to say speaking of those vibes i'll remind everybody that even with the turmoil of losing Adem Bona we are still the third favorite team on Cal Sheet predicted to win the NBA championships and thank you as always to Cal Sheet for sponsoring this video and a reminder Or if you want to use the Code Digest NBA when you are signing up, they will hook you up with $55 when you trade your first $25 in options. The other multiple moves, Chris Carroll and Tay Fields both being signed to exhibit 10 contracts. The corresponding moves to make that happen, seeing the cutting and waving of St. Thomas and Duke Miles. this to me given that our two new additions Chris Carroll and Tay Fields are both 6-6 and under and more guardsy type and not necessarily uh new center additions i don't think that anybody no offense to anybody involved in here i don't think that anybody here is going to necessarily be the filling out the 14th and 15th slots on the regular season roster to start on opening day that being said it is nonetheless to me going to be interesting to see what kind of a shot they get in this final preseason game and then correspondingly we're going to keep an eye all season long on the Blue Coats and what they are capable of producing in terms of offensive output rebounding defense just all the different metrics you know they are they are an extension and functionary of this team and somebody i think a lot of you can dismiss it very easily as being like oh like we've got so many superstars and all that we've also got load management we've got always going to be bumps and bruises there's always going to be guys that just need a breather and so we've got to we got to make sure that we figure out that right guy to fill the last of the two-way contracts and this is part of that process all of that culminating though into the question it kind of like i had said with Anthony Simons and finding this team's rhythm and routine and i saw this article about it's not panic if the Sixers get off to a slow start and it goes in a couple of directions of saying well if you look at LeBron's previous stops and the first year that he got to Miami the first year that he got to LA the first year and on his return to Cleveland and uh after this many games they were all they you know it seems like there's a consistent uh 20 to 35 game adaptation period at the beginning and then after that something clicks and tyloo gets hired and that everything you know seems to mold together and on some of it it's like well you might even have to wait till that second year for it really to come together and in looking at all of that and in thinking about how we have had very limited time with the whole gang together um on the court in the pre-season and that yeah the season is long and i think expectations are very lofty and high but expectations are also that like you know a lot of this is veteran presence and they know how to make it all click together i was curious what are what are your personal expectations out the gate are obviously we're not going to be stoked if this team goes 0 and 10 to start the season and i picked the first 10 games just to make it um kind of a round number of easy to digest of talking about we got Knicks Cavs Bucks Pistons Pacers Bulls Hornets Cavs a couple of a couple of repeats pistons again um i would be really curious to know how many of you in the comment section are just like i'm assuming this is going to fall into two camps one being pressures on right away LeBron only has two years left we need win win win win win given that the Knicks are still good and that there's other teams kind of rising in the east and the last thing we need to do is lose out on home court advantage in the playoffs because we didn't take the beginning of this season very seriously there's also probably going to be some of you the other end of the spectrum that will say oh you know none of this out the gate matters we don't need to go hard and have people get injured or blow out and we're going to have Embiid's going to be adjusting to a new style of play we still got to figure out the back like i can i take the middle ground in all of that and say that i think that we need to go seven and three out the first 10 and maybe 10 is just this kind of stupidly arbitrary number i will give game one as a i'm okay with that loss just given that MSG Knicks are getting their rings defending their championship lebron and the gang haven't played together a ton it's on the road yeah like you know whatever like extenuating circumstances allow for a little bit of wiggle room past that i i just don't see like you know the Cavs and pistons are both good basketball teams that will do well in the east this year that i think are you know a commensurate talent if you want to say it given that they will probably win a bunch of games and be in our league for uh you know rankings but on that i i don't want to lose a ton out the gate and make excuses now do i need statement wins and us dragging all these guys no but i need i need if you know we're talking about two games against the pistons i need the one at home to be we're talking about two games against the Cavs the one at home to be a win like we need this to be a team that plays in the friendly confines picks up those early season must wins and i said seven and three out the first 10 15 and 5 and the first 20 maybe that's way too big expectations but I'm also, I, I don't want to get 20, 30, 40, what I don't want to get to any point in this season where we're making just the perpetual excuse of oh this is all gonna come together I want to if we got to have a tough conversation about coaching changes or philosophy changes or whatever let's have it early let's have it 5, 15, 5 to 15 to 20 games in and get that change done so that we can make the corresponding changes and then give the new whatever look it is that happens from those changes time to fit and fill and that's kind of what I got we still got one more pre-season game to get through before we get into the living and dying on every single one of these games but I'm curious what you think out the gate let me know like subscribe comment share follow all those other YouTube buttons until next time go Sixers we'll talk to you guys soon